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Movement Quotes by Martha Graham
- I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of…
- America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement.…
- Nothing is more revealing than movement.
- All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed…
- Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
- Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
- I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting…
- A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle…
- My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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